Now You Can Graph Your Twitter Usage — Twitter has the potential of breaking into the mainstream this year. A lot of what's going on around Twitter is not dissimilar to the earlier days of blogging; we're seeing evangelists, some basic mainstream adoptions, and even some tracking services.

Is Twitter F'ed? — The question of business model timing seems to come up weekly with regards to some startup. As Twitter usage has grown, have they f'ed themselves out of a real, sustainable business model? And has Pownce done something right by launching with a business model?

Apple daytrading: How to cash in on the Macworld keynote effect — The buzz among Apple (AAPL) traders today is a thought experiment that Matt Haughey worked up at A Whole Lotta Nothing. He writes … Haughey worked the numbers and the result is the chart above, which he calls the Keynote Index Fund (click chart to view full size).

First Hands On: Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 — There's no better sign of Microsoft's increasing acceptance of the Mac population than the latest version of Office for Mac 2008, the first Office with native support for Intel-based Macs. Like its Mac-side predecessors …

Rudd online porn-free plan questioned — A RUDD Government plan to censor internet pornography and violence could undermine another of its election promises - to speed up our internet access. — The Internet Industry Association has warned the downside of censoring access could be a reduction in the speed of access to websites.

Preview: Las Vegas' Greatest Gadgets Show — Kevin Costner, Yoko Ono, Mary J. Blige and Danica Patrick will be hawking products at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week—but they'll hardly be noticed. — As usual, the main attraction at CES will be the blizzard of new gadgets …

Redfly Mobile Companion is the Palm Foleo For Windows Mobiles — Remember the Palm Foleo? This REDFLY Mobile Companion is just like that, except it's for Windows Mobile phones. The MC looks like a small 8-inch screen laptop (styled in Famicom colors), has a keyboard and touchpad, but weighs 1.9 pounds and measures 9x6x1 inches.

US extends China-3Com probe — By Sundeep Tucker in Hong Kong and Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington — A US probe into a proposed $2.2bn buy-out of 3Com, a network equipment supplier, by a consortium involving a Chinese company is poised to enter a decisive second phase.

The 5 most annoying programs on your PC — Elephantware. That is what we are talking about. Bloated programs that make brand new PCs boot like Pentium 2s with 64 MBs of RAM. — This is software that causes your screen to freeze while it works, consumes enough system resources to display …

Put your questions to Bill Gates — Bill Gates is to answer your questions at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. — The software supremo and co-founder of Microsoft is preparing to step down from the helm of one of the largest and most powerful companies in the world.

Gawker Media Gets Strung Out on Sci-Fi — Online blogomerate Gawker Media is best known for outsider snark-fests like New York's Gawker and Washington D.C.'s Wonkette . But the company minors in geekier fare like gadget site Gizmodo, game blog Kotaku and Lifehacker, a productivity site.

PSD2 Compliance in Zoho Books — The Revised Payment Services Directive, also known as the PSD2, is a set of regulatory guidelines laid down by the European Union (EU) for finance, banking, and payment service companies.

Google Fi - a phone plan, by Google — We felt that most phone plans just weren't made with you in mind. So that's why we built Google Fi with features that real people actually want. Click to learn more.